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Farah told jurors that he stabbed Mr Adam because he thought he was going to stab him. He says he did it to protect himself after Mr Adam had threatened him in the past.

Mr Adam allegedly called Farah in April and made threats but the trial heard that no record of the call has been found.

Farah claims that it was made on a different phone, with a different sim card, that he broke before the incident.

Farah told the jury: "I can't remember in detail what he said but I remember the main things.

"The start of the call went smooth but when it got to the end he threatened me and said he would stab me, words similar to 'I've stabbed people before and I will stab you'.

"The call ended by him saying 'watch when I see you'."

Farah claims that the threat was made because he had been spending time with people that Mr Adam didn't get along with.

He told the jury on Wednesday, that he started to carry a knife seven days before he stabbed Mr Adam. He said it was not because of anything Mr Adam had said to him but was in response to threats from others.

He said: “Obviously, all the threats was me being attacked so I knew something was going to happen to me sooner or later."

Leicester Crown Court

On May 15, Farah was walking in St Matthew's Way when he passed Mr Adam and then heard him shouting his nickname 'littles'. He was carrying a kitchen knife which had an eight-inch blade.

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Farah said: “When I was at the pavement, he said my name, he said ‘littles’, he started shouting and swearing at me. We were just stood at one place then he got even angrier and started walking towards me.

“All I could hear was him shouting and swearing then he was walking back to where I was, where he had just came from.

“That is when he had his arms by his side and he was walking faster towards me, I couldn’t run no more, I couldn’t jump over anywhere. There was traffic flying past, he came right next to the road and I was stood at the pedestrian refuge.

“He stepped onto the pedestrian refuge, we were about 10ft away from each other, that’s when he continued to walk and when he came too close.

"I think he came to attack me, his arms were still by his side, he didn’t move at all, when he came too close that’s when he puffed his chest out to me and that is when I stabbed him."

Farah says that it all happened "within a split second" and once he stabbed him, Mr Adam stood there for around five seconds before running off.

He added: “I shouted his name but then he turned back and he told me ‘come round the corner, come round the corner’ but he was still angry, if he said it in a calm way then I would have come.

"If he’d collapsed then that’s when I would have called the paramedics and handed myself in, but he said it like he was pissed off. I didn't see him collapse.

“I knew him, we had a connection, because we were both Somalian and I knew his family for 10 years. I didn’t see any blood on him, he looked like he was okay, he was running to the direction to the alleyway to his house.

“I turned back, went past the traffic, I didn’t want to be late for my meeting with the youth offending team."

Police at the scene in St Matthews Way Leicester where Mr Adam was stabbed (Image: Chris Gordon)

Internet searches made on a computer found in Farah’s home included repeated efforts to look for flights to Somalia, details of legal services, and information on prison sentences for convicted murderers.